Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The artless art
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 14:47:37 -0700

Bernard wrote:
><Snip>  Yes, I know I'm exaggerating, but I'm not doing it to
> start trouble. I honestly don't think it takes special talent to take
> such pictures; you just need to get into it, and *do* it. He did it. And
> so did the hero of that boring movie of the boy with the Canonette:
> Pecker. The results are quite comparable.
> 
> Bernard.
Equating Henri Cartier-Bresson to Pecker would require lots of room for
exaggeration and humour in my inflated opinion. 
Like comparing Adolf Hitler to Daffy Duck 
or Bach to Barry (Manilow). 
Mark Rabiner